Resurgence 25X
RESURGENCE 25X Webinar
19 January 2021
Five guest speakers.
Twenty-five examples of Resurgence.
Five customised attendant engagement activities.
One goal: Support a vibrant recovery for Ireland from COVID 19.
ATPO linked up with Waterford Chamber to deliver this unique event. As part of ATPO’s contribution to a vibrant recovery from COVID 19 Resurgence 25 X took place at 11.00 am GMT on the 19th of January. It is a Waterford conceived initiative to share, magnify, and multiply the ideas and opportunities for a resurgence in Ireland that can be adopted now and show fruit in 2025.
It is very clear that the devastation wrought by the COVID 19 pandemic on the Irish population will take a number of years to undo. Whatever steps we take now to get us back to our vibrant best may not take full effect until 2025 (or even later). Government departments, agencies, etc. have been working on the recovery agenda since the start of the spread of COVID 19. But it is also clear that we will need as many options as possible from as wide a field of contributors as possible to push us through to full sustainable recovery.
Resurgence 25 X was the first of a number of such events planned for 2021. The objective is
- To share, magnify, and multiply the ideas and opportunities for a resurgence in Ireland that can be adopted now and show fruit in 2025.
- To maximise the engagement of attendees during the event.
- To achieve the above in a manageable chunk of time for participants and attendees (two hours ).
The event included
(A) My perspectives on mindset and momentum.
(B) Inputs from 5 guest speakers presenting examples from a diverse range of expertise, practice, and perspectives.
(C) 5 customised interactive engagement activities (the X element) to expand on and multiply the resurgence themes from the event.
To begin the session I spoke about the importance of a
- A positive mindset to allow momentum for positive change and
- Recognising and building on real momentum shift when it will inevitably occur.
Each of the guest speakers was given the same ‘5 for 25X’ challenge. To speak about their perspective on resurgence based on their knowledge, experience, and ideas for our recovery from COVID 19 over the next few years (to 2025). To add to the challenge each speaker was asked to provide at least 5 examples of resurgence in their delivery.
The guest speakers and their contributions to Resurgence 25X are presented below.
Gary Graham Bord Bia .
Gary is the creator and manager of Bord Bia's Bloom festival, held in the Phoenix Park Dublin on the June bank holiday weekend every year (during peace time) The 5 day event is attended by 120,000 visitors generating wall-to-wall media coverage and circa €50M spend in the gardening sector p/a. Gary appears as chief judge on the highly successful RTE1 Super Garden TV series where his horticulture training comes in very useful. He is also trained in marketing, he has a post grad diploma in executive coaching and he completed his business masters in WIT. He made Waterford his permanent home 15 years ago he is convinced that the county can become an internationally acclaimed horti-tourism mecca, combining and leveraging GIY/Grow HQ, Mount Congreve, Lafcadio Hearn and the Green Way with our favourable climatic conditions and geographical proximity to the UK
In March 2020 Bord Bia was forced to cancel the Bloom show and "pivot" the work of the Bloom team to deliver ""#Bloom at Home" working closely with RTE and Bloom stakeholders/client companies. The live event sector has been one of the most seriously impacted during the pandemic. Gary made a decision in March 2020 to use the pandemic as an opportunity to reframe roles and goals ensuring that the Bloom budget, the team and the ambitions remain intact for the post-Covid world.
Gary's five resurgence topics were
- Dealing with Resistance to Change
- Review
- Reframe
- Reconnect
- Maintaining Resilience
Mary Boland Theatre Royal Waterford
A native of Dunmore East, Co. Waterford Mary Boland has been committed to supporting artists and arts activity throughout her career. Since graduating from the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Mary has spent many years working in a wide variety of management roles in the arts sector. She has worked as Production Manager on various theatre productions as well as Company Producer with Red Kettle Theatre Company, Little Red Kettle, Spraoi. Marys work has brought her to Inishowen, Galway and Cork as well as her native Waterford.
With 12 years’ experience as Theatre Manager of the Theatre Royal, Mary has played a major role in the development of the venues journey. It is Mary’s ambition to increase supports to artists through the venues annual programming strategy and available resources.
Mary's five for the 25x challenge were
Adapting to New ways
Regional and National Collaboration
From Live stage to Live stream
Creative Rehearsal and Performance Practices
Work at Making it Work for Others
David McNamara EY
David is an economist and director with EY-DKM Economic Advisory. He works with clients across the public and private sectors to solve problems and understand the economic drivers impacting their organisations – helping them to build a better working world. David is an expert in macroeconomics, with particular focus on the Irish, UK and Eurozone economies. Prior to joining EY, David worked with Ireland's largest stockbroker, Davy, as a senior economist in the capital markets division.
David has recently helped his clients understand and prepare for the impact of Brexit and Covid-19. Brexit in particular has posed unique challenges to the Irish economy and the sectoral implications have created complex problems, which David has supported clients in solving throughout a turbulent 2020, while planning for recovery in 2021 and beyond.
David's spoke about the following five resurgence topics
Vaccines and Science
Irish Economic Resilience
Abandoning Austerity
Reimagining our Public Realm
Rural Ireland Resurgence
Michael Kelly GIY
Michael Kelly is founder of GIY, a social enterprise that aims to support 100 million people to grow, cook and eat some of their own food for a healthier, more sustainable world by 2030. He is a social entrepreneur, author, TV presenter and hacker grower.
Founded in 2008, GIY's mission is to inspire, educate and enable a global movement of food growers, whose collective actions will help to rebuild a sustainable food system. This year GIY is supporting over 700,000 people to grow, cook and eat some of their own food at home, school, work and in the community, via content, events, campaigns and products. GIY are passionate about the power of food growing experiences to give people an improved understanding of food and nutrition ('food empathy') and work with come of the world's leading brands and philanthropic organisations.
Mick's five propositions were
Follow your Passion
Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway
Thrive on Uncertainty
Grow it Forward
Have a Big Hairy Audacious Goal
Sean Brady: Cloud Assist
Sean is a graduate of the University of Limerick and has a Master in Internetworking and is involved with a number of Skillnet initiatives on Cloud and was a member of Lean Construction Ireland initiative under the Collaboration Pillar group. Sean is a Certified Microsoft Cloud Deployment engineer for Office 365 and speaks regularly on the benefits of cloud adoption for Lean process improvements. Sean is also a member of the Association of Data Protection Officers and has been asked to speak on Cloud Security at various Data Protection and the ISO27001 conferences.
Sean is a founding member of Grow Remote which is a non-profit initiative to promote Remote Working as a means to repopulate the towns and villages of Ireland while benefiting our economy and environment. Following the selection in 2016 as a finalist for the Climate Launchpad competition with their business travel avoidance solution for Office 365, Sean is championing smarter working practises using Microsoft Cloud services and how the future of work is remote. https://congregation.ie/old/blog-papers/the-future-of-meetings-is.html.
Seans' five ideas for resurgence were
Embrace Remote Working
Join a Grow Remote Chapter
Ditch the Second Family Car
Move to the Countryside
If we All Change a Little then we will only Change a Little
Customised interactive engagement activities (the X element).
Interactive engagement activities that began at registration and then continued through the event itself were created
- So that attendees could expand on and multiply the 25 examples of resurgence from the guest speakers and
- To provide a platform for an exponential growth of ideas from a single event to support a vibrant recovery for Ireland from COVID 19.
These activities were central to the Resurgence 25X concept of sharing, magnifying and multiplying ideas. These 'Virtual Whistlestop Workshops' ncluded customised individual, pair and group activities. The activities were designed to ensure that attendees would 'meet' and share with as many differerent fellow attendess as possible as part of this process.
The feedback from attendees to date has been exceptionally positive. The X ( multiplier) element worked really well on the day and is ongoing as new ideas are still being added to the inputs from the speakers. These are being shared with attendees and will create the base for future Resurgence 25X events.
